In the Middle Chapter 6 “Minilessons”


Minilessons: shorter lessons, ranging from 5 to 15 minutes in length that focuses on a specific topic

Benefits:
  • Focus highly on very specific topics
  • Keeps students’ attention
  • Moves quickly
  • Memorable

3 Possibilities:
  1. Techniques for Revising (by demonstrating) pg. 162
  2. Genre lesson and their differences pg. 170
  3. Dictionary/Thesaurus – use of it from words in novel pg. 174

Other Options:
  • Reading minilessons
  • Book minilessonss – compare/contrast with Venn Diagram


STEP 2:


Narrow down to 1 language-related idea: Techniques for Revising (pg. 162)

I would like to use this topic for my minilesson to not only provide as a lesson for students in our middle school classrooms, but to guide future teachers in ways to revise and edit their students' papers.